In the following essay, Pott discusses adaptations of the Faust legend in Dutch drama.

Holland's contribution to the Faust literature is a modest one. But with much of sixteenth-century Europe it shared an early interest and knowledge regarding the notorious doctor. For in the course of his wanderings Faust came also to the Low Countries. He even gained a kind of prominence there: he was imprisoned most probably in the castle Batenburg in the province of Gelderland as punishment for one of his typical escapades the nature of which is unknown.1